[HOT] OpenStreetMap brings world Championship to Ireland

[Ciarán Staunton]

Just a quick shout to the mailing list about Portmarnock Community School
who are Sage Global Entrepreneurship World Champions 2017.

The champions are decided after a World Cup competition. This involved 32
teams explaining their projects, and making competitive pitches. The whole
thing was based on OpenStreetMap of course re-using the #MapLesotho data
they had eagerly helped to create. They are just back in Ireland with an
impressive looking trophy, and a small bit of prize money which they are
donating to a school in Lesotho. Their project is called Global Citizens
Mapping the Future and it is very creative in that it look for all kinds of
new use cases for the data created. You can follow their handle on twitter
or see a write up on MapLesotho - dot - com (sorry for the lack of
hyperlink). Obviously a huge shout to those of you (you know who you are)
who put the time in to validating the Lesotho HOTOSM tasks and generously
giving specific feedback to them when they started in 2014-5. Watch out
world, a bunch of kids have a huge database, and no end of creativity!
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